I never really decided one day that swinging was going to become part of my life. It started much more naturally, with my partner and me simply being curious about what we might enjoy together.

There is one thing I have always needed in order to feel completely free when I’m travelling or trying something outside the ordinary. I need to feel safe with the person beside me. It doesn’t really matter whether we’re lying on a naturist beach, travelling somewhere new, staying at an adult resort or simply finding ourselves in a situation neither of us has experienced before. If I don’t feel that I can rely on my partner, the rest of the experience loses its meaning for me

I’ve always liked being naked in the sun. I started going topless when I was around twenty, and a couple of years later, when I met my partner, we began going together to naturist beaches. It was never something that felt particularly shocking to me. Quite the opposite. I liked the simplicity of it, the feeling that there was nothing between my skin and the sun, the air moving over my body and that strange little sense of freedom you get when you stop thinking about what you’